Judge rules QCC sergeant dangerous, orders house arrest, GPS

WORCESTER 
A Quinsigamond Community College police sergeant charged with attacking a co-worker Jan. 31 was placed on house arrest with a GPS monitor after a two-day dangerousness hearing at Central District Court.

Judge McGuiggan set bail at $10,000 cash or $100,000 surety, which Sgt. Brooks' lawyer, James B. Triplett, said he would meet. She ordered him to wear a GPS monitor, stay away from Ms. Prinsen and the town of West Brookfield, where she lives, and to only leave his home for medical or legal visits, or to attend mandatory meetings at the college.

Assistant District Attorney Timothy Westerman said that when Ms. Prinsen confronted Sgt. Brooks, her supervisor, after he failed to assist her during a check on a suspicious vehicle shortly after midnight Jan. 31, he “snapped,” preventing her from calling for help, taking away her keys, choking her, throwing her into a door and onto the ground and spraying pepper spray in her face.

When questioned by his co-worker, Mr. Westerman said, “He changes: He becomes a violent individual incapable of controlling his actions.”